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Lock and Load Montage Funny Foreigner Dual Wielding Alas, Poor Villain Heterosexual Life-Partners Dark and Troubled Past Properly Paranoid Product Placement Danny Peary Cult Movies List Face Death with Dignity Oh, Crap! 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Captain Ersatz Cool Car Curse Cut Short BFG Works Set in World War II Impaled with Extreme Prejudice This Is Gonna Suck The Brute The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Musical What You Are in the Dark Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Actually Pretty Funny Not So Stoic Disappeared Dad Fake Shemp Eureka Moment Would Hurt a Child Spiritual Successor Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Major Injury Underreaction Implacable Man Straight Gay Femme Fatale She's Got Legs Happily Married Creative Closing Credits Running Gag Brick Joke Hidden Depths Destination Defenestration Mexican Standoff Honor Before Reason Double Entendre Mood Whiplash Berserk Button Word of God Animated Credits Opening Pimped-Out Dress The Ace Dressing as the Enemy Science Fiction Films Alliterative Name Jerkass Ms. Fanservice Bad Boss Ungrateful Bastard Bilingual Bonus Those Wacky Nazis Wham Line Cool Guns Index of Film Westerns Red Oni, Blue Oni Tagline '80s Hair Sequel Escalation Hell Is That Noise Stalker with a Crush The Chessmaster Ambiguous Ending For the Evulz MacGuffin Posthumous Character The Vamp Camera Abuse Meaningful Echo Shoot the Shaggy Dog The '60s Canon Foreigner Antagonist Title Facial Horror And I Must Scream Parental Substitute World of Ham Last-Name Basis Police Brutality Soundtrack Dissonance Cain and Abel Defiant to the End Fanservice Deadpan Snarker Breaking the Fourth Wall Pragmatic Villainy Deliberately Monochrome A God Am I Kids Are Cruel Auto Erotica Twist Ending Offscreen Moment of Awesome Ship Tease Creepy Child La Résistance Hope Spot Slashed Throat For Want of a Nail N-Word Privileges Plot Hole Dumb Blonde Ripped from the Headlines Big Bad Duumvirate Not What It Looks Like Improvised Weapon The Bad Guy Wins The Ditz Aluminum Christmas Trees Fan Disservice Epic Fail Leave the Camera Running Fatal Family Photo Unusual Euphemism Rewatch Bonus Catch-Phrase Precision F-Strike Older Than They Look Arranged Marriage Lighter and Softer Rousing Speech Redemption Equals Death Reasonable Authority Figure Gratuitous English Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Redshirt Army The Mole Our Zombies Are Different Irony Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Beware the Nice Ones Freeze-Frame Bonus Smug Snake Ambiguously Gay Batman Gambit Dutch Angle Only in It for the Money Punch-Clock Villain Adaptational Attractiveness Demonic Possession The Faceless What the Hell, Hero? 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Is a Crapshoot Ironic Echo A Date with Rosie Palms Vacation Films All There in the Manual Together in Death Badass in a Nice Suit Retirony Calling the Old Man Out Damsel in Distress Parental Neglect Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Evil Is Hammy Be Careful What You Wish For Slasher Smile Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Mafia Abusive Parents Closed Circle He Knows Too Much Extreme Doormat Becoming the Mask Karma Houdini Darkest Hour Knight Templar Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Manly Tears Stylistic Suck Determinator Authority Equals Asskicking Empathic Environment Made of Iron Arch-Enemy Everyone Has Standards Names to Run Away from Really Fast Male Gaze Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Hero of Another Story Papa Wolf Eagleland The '70s Truth in Television Our Vampires Are Different folderlabel Combat Pragmatist The Big Guy From Bad to Worse "Awesome McCool" Name Book-Ends Punny Name Genre Throwback Dirty Old Man Big Bad Mistaken for Gay Leitmotif Credits Gag Double-Meaning Title Cowboy Cop The Hero Dies Badass Grandpa Affably Evil Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Genre Shift Historical Hero Upgrade Artistic License – Law Toplessness from the Back Those Two Bad Guys Annoying Younger Sibling Wham Shot Unspoken Plan Guarantee Butt-Monkey Hair-Trigger Temper Nice Guy Faking the Dead Curb-Stomp Battle Friend to All Children Villain Opening Scene Eldritch Abomination Paper-Thin Disguise Jerkass Has a Point Villain Ball Deus ex Machina Awesome, but Impractical Death of a Child Amusing Injuries Knife Nut Bond One-Liner British Films Insistent Terminology Shell-Shocked Veteran And Starring Famous Last Words "Well Done, Son!" Guy Death by Sex Bavarian Fire Drill You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Corpsing Public Domain Feature Films The Load Advertised Extra Big Applesauce Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? May–December Romance Belligerent Sexual Tension Abhorrent Admirer Men Are the Expendable Gender Bar Brawl Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Skewed Priorities Due to the Dead Only Sane Man Up to Eleven Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Bait-and-Switch Rule of Cool Cold-Blooded Torture Logo Joke Green-Eyed Monster NO INDOOR VOICE Wounded Gazelle Gambit Horror Comedy Artistic License – Physics Male Frontal Nudity Gone Horribly Right Intrepid Reporter Face–Heel Turn Plucky Comic Relief Parental Incest Dirty Coward Suspiciously Similar Substitute Trailers Always Spoil Drives Like Crazy Show Within a Show "Shaggy Dog" Story Daddy's Girl Sinister Minister Broken Aesop Mundane Made Awesome Those Two Guys Documentary Pre-Mortem One-Liner Roaring Rampage of Revenge Totally Radical Manchild Disney Death Corrupt Corporate Executive Took a Level in Jerkass Noodle Incident Video Credits The End... Or Is It? Bowdlerise Chiaroscuro Death by Irony Accidental Murder Cool Shades Mighty Whitey Bittersweet Ending The X of Y Ascended Extra Historical-Domain Character Apocalypse How Left the Background Music On Loads and Loads of Characters Chekhov's Gun Tranquil Fury Vitriolic Best Buds Reality Has No Subtitles Training Montage Reality Ensues Guns Akimbo Eiffel Tower Effect Adapted Out Covers Always Lie Very Loosely Based on a True Story Canadian Movies Stuff Blowing Up Diabolus ex Machina Easily Forgiven No OSHA Compliance Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Woman Scorned As Long as It Sounds Foreign Martial Arts Movie Broken Pedestal Dropped a Bridge on Him Intergenerational Friendship Big Brother Instinct Bunny-Ears Lawyer Creator Cameo Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Epic Movie Good Is Not Nice Setting Update Based on a True Story Improbable Weapon User Never My Fault Jerk with a Heart of Gold Dwindling Party Mercy Kill 20 Minutes into the Future Brother–Sister Incest Refuge in Audacity Dark Reprise Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Red Eyes, Take Warning Suspiciously Specific Denial Hate Sink Bloodier and Gorier As You Know One-Man Army Your Head A-Splode Eye Scream He Who Fights Monsters Historical In-Joke Henpecked Husband Self-Deprecation Take That! Foregone Conclusion Depraved Bisexual Naked People Are Funny Politically Incorrect Villain Brainless Beauty Kill 'em All Five-Man Band Red Herring Romantic Comedy Humiliation Conga Bi the Way Black and Gray Morality Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience All for Nothing Badass Normal Fiery Redhead Early Installment Weirdness I Have Your Wife The Lancer Mystery and Detective Films Heroic BSoD Black Comedy Rape Well-Intentioned Extremist Attempted Rape Back from the Dead Pretty in Mink Psycho for Hire Wrong Genre Savvy Drugs Are Bad Anguished Declaration of Love Ghost Fiction Important Haircut The Hero Missing Mom